SKHS Principal's Newsletter
Robert Mezzanotte April, 2016
From the Desk of Mr. Mezzanotte
As always, please email me with any questions at rmezzanotte@sksd-ri.net.
SKPades Class of 2017
The photos below are courtesy of Daniel Gagnon.
Rebel Athletics
- The Girls Basketball team advanced to the finals of the RI State Tournament, where they fell in a tightly-contested game to Lasalle Academy.
- Senior Celia Tomlinson scored the 1,000th point of her career
- Tomlinson also was recognized as the Gatorade Player of the Year in girls basketball for the state of Rhode Island
- Junior Anthony Shepard was the state champion in the long jump
- Senior Mason Durand was a state wrestling finalist in the 152-pound weight class
- Senior Sabrina Nuttall was the state swimming champion in the 110-yard breaststroke
- Amanda Varone was named the 2015 Division 1 Basketball Coach of the Year
The following SKHS students were recognized as All-State athletes:
- Anthony Shepard, Terrell Handley- Football (First Team)
- Zack Misto- Soccer (First Team), Colin Gulla, Tate Fenton (Second Team)
- Ellie Lawler- Cross Country (First Team and Gatorade Player of the Year)
- Maddie West- Girls Soccer (Second Team)
- Anthony Shepard- Indoor Track (First Team)
- Celia Tomlinson- Girls Basketball (First Team and Gatorade Player of the Year)
- Sabrina Nuttall- Girls Swimming (First Team)
Photos below are courtesy of Daniel Gagnon.
SKHS Music
On March 30 & 31, the SKHS Music Department hosted our Spring Jazz and Classical Concerts. Both nights were tremendously successful and entertaining, bringing pride to the parents, students, and teachers alike.
Senior Portfolio Presentations
Rotary Club Students of the Month
Zachary Neighbors and Patrick O'Hara were recent recognized as the Rotary Club Students of the Month. They both attended the Rotary Club luncheons this spring.
This award is given to a deserving student attending Narragansett High School, The Prout School, and South Kingstown High School. Recognized students are presented to the club members during lunch and presented with a $100 Staples gift card and a Rotary certificate. The criteria for this award includes making significant contributions in community service and/or having significant improvement in attitude, cooperation, participation, or any other area deemed important to the teacher, guidance counselor, or other school personnel making the nomination. Congratulations to these two highly-deserving young men!
SKHS Art
Congratulations to Advanced Placement art student Kyle Palma. Kyle was awarded the Grand Prize award of $2,500 for his drawings from the Wickford Art Association. Many of his beautifully detailed pencil drawings are of his friends skating at Old Mountain Field. He plans to go to art school and design skateboards.
Also, Nicole Gennari's drawing was entered in the national VFW Young American Patriotic Award contest. Winners will be reveled in May. Good Luck, Nicole!
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SKHS Student Awarded by Daughters of the American Revolution
Senior Rieley Auger was recognized on Saturday, April 2, 2016 during the Daughters of the American Revolution annual state-wide meeting at the Richmond Country Club. Rieley was nominated by faculty and peers to represent SKHS in the annual DAR Good Citizens Award and Scholarship Contest.
The DAR Good Citizens program encourages and rewards the qualities of good citizenship among high school seniors: dependability, service, leadership, and patriotism. The participating students had to fill out a lengthy application describing how they have tried to manifest the qualities of a good citizen and submit 2 letters of recommendation and academic transcript. Additionally, under the supervision of a faculty member, the student was required to write an impromptu essay within a 2-hour time limit without assistance or reference materials. The essay topic for this year was: “Our American Heritage and Our Responsibility for Preserving It: Of Our American Rights and Freedoms, Which One Would You Choose to Celebrate and Why?” Rieley placed second of the 14 students who participated. In addition to her well written response, the selection committee noted that the following activities and accomplishments earned Rieley the award: She is captain of the Varsity Girls Lacrosse team, Vice President of the Student Council, a Debate Team and National Honor Society member, the recipient of the Herbert and Claiborne Pell Medal for Excellence in AP US History and has performed various acts of community service.
Rieley plans to study political science as an undergraduate student, continue her education at law school and eventually work in government or within the United Nations. Rieley is the daughter of Stacey and Dina Auger of West Kingston.
SKHS Students Volunteering in the Community
SKHS Academic Decathaletes
The Academic Decathlon is a team-based competition where students match their intellect with students from other schools. Students compete in divisions based on their GPA—A (Honors), B (Scholastic) and C (Varsity) across 10 categories: Art, Economics, Essay, Interview, Language and Literature, Mathematics, Music, Science, Social Science and Speech. Awards are given in each academic category and division, recognizing individual and team achievement.
At our annual competition on March 20, 2016, the South Kingstown High School team, coached by Christine Mohan and Eileen Gannon, placed 6th (out of 19 teams). The following students won individual medals:
Isobel McCullough, Grade 11, Bronze for Essay (Scholastic Division)
Anthony Diebold, Grade 12, Bronze for Social Science, Gold for Top Scorer on Team (Honors Division)
Matthew McGovern, Grade 11, Silver for Science, Bronze for Social Science (Scholastic Division)
Congratulations to all of the students who participated in the Academic Decathlon!
SKHS Debate Team
Daniel Glickman
Phoebe McCaffrey
Kara Waldheger
Sarah Leclair
Ben Trager
Eli O'Brien
Lilian Hogan
Both Ben Trager and Kara Waldheger received speaker awards for placing in the top 20. Congratulations to all students!
SKPP Update
The South Kingstown Partnership for Prevention has had a busy few months. Students have been involved in numerous events in and out of school. In January SKPP hosted a school-wide event using the Kahoot trivia game. Advisories could compete against each other to answer facts related to various substances. In February, six SKHS students attended the National Youth Leadership Initiative in Washington DC. These students had the opportunity to visit Capitol Hill and speak to various Senators and Representatives on substance-related prevention issues. SKPP students participated in MADD’S Mocktail Event, honoring our school's victim, Joe Strauss. Finally, SKPP partnered with Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Bush of the Health and PE department to host a Freshman Health Fair, where students created various interactive games to highlight substance use, misuse and abuse. Over 350 students participated in the games and activities.